When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The Benny Goodman Band launch into their opening number, ‘Don’t Be That Way’.

Jazz guitarist Jim Campilongo reflects on Christian's groundbreaking guitar work on the 1987 compilation 'Charlie Christian – ...

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The instrument hasn’t always been a central player in jazz, but the best guitarists have taken up the challenge of finding ...

YOU have probably never heard of Irene Higginbottom. She was a prolific composer from the late-30s on and worked with the ...

Craft Recordings have announced the first reissues of 2025 from Original Jazz Classics, the series that revisits seminal and ...

His work as a producer, talent scout and general advocate made it possible for such quintessential figures as Benny Goodman ... trombonist Vic Dickenson, drummer Jo Jones, trumpeters Buck Clayton ...

Which is what they did best, flat out swingin’ man! The King of Swing in the 1930s wasn't Benny Goodman or Count Basie. It was Chick Webb. The drummer fielded, managed and drove one of the best dance ...

The quartet, featuring Delbert Dale Anderson (trumpet), Edward William Littlefield II (percussion), Michael Bartholomew Glynn (double bass), and Reuel Vallester Lubag (pianist/drummer), performed ...

The penultimate week of Women's History Month broadcast includes new releases from guitarist Mimi Fox, trombonists Naomi Moon Siegel and Natalie Cressman, pianist Lara Downes, the group Five Play led ...